When did he first come to Oregon?
His first trip to Oregon probably was in 1899 expedition to the John Day country with his student from Berkeley. That was written up by Loye Holmes Miller in a monograph published by the University of Oregon some twenty years ago (1). It’s an interesting story because he come up from California I think by train. His students came by sea which I guess was less expensive. They met in Portland and took a steamer up as far as The Dalles. They then had a wagon team for travel inland to fossil areas. An interesting sideline to this occurred on a Sunday morning in Antelope, where we had all the concern about the Rajneshees a few years ago. Although it was a Sunday morning, all the saloons in Antelope were active. Grandfather found some fellow who was staggering along, leading his horse. When Grandfather and the students reached him, they propped the man up against a fence post and before leaving him tied his horse to the fence. They figured that was a good way to get him to sober up. This was typical of my grandfather ‘s Presbyterian background. He did not have a very high regard for drinking or any type of carousing, particularly on Sunday.
Why did he spend some of his summers in Oregon when he was President of the Carnegie Institution?
That is an interesting aspect. He had an arrangement with the Carnegie family which allowed him to take part of his time off in the summertime, when it is so hot in Washington. If you’ve been to Washington, then you know that between May and end of September, it can be very hot and humid. If you’re a westerner, it’s pretty hard to get used to. What grandfather used to do was to have the Institution’s annual meeting before late spring so that he could leave his office. He would take his personal secretary, a man by the name of Sam Calloway, who also doubled as a chauffeur. Grandfather would arrange through my father to have a seven passenger Packard limousine available for them through Earl C. Anthony in Oakland and then drive around and do all his work here in California. At the same time that he was doing that, he was not really away from Carnegie Institution because he was taking care of the Carnegie’s maters having to do with Cal Tech in Pasadena. He could also tie in his Redwood League work with Newton Drury and activities with my father. So that was an interesting split in his activities. In a way, I did that myself. I took my summer off from the Midwest to come to California for a month during the summer to see my family.
